Why CFOs Want to Get Ahead of the Numbers

CFOs don't want to report the news after it's happened.

They want to be in the know around decisions that the

operating teams are making, and coming in at the right time

to say, "Hey, some of those decisions would affect either

working capital in a bad way or affects margins." And

similarly, operating teams want to really understand, hey, how

do their decisions affect margins?

How do their decisions affect working capital and cash flow?

And so operators are increasingly incentivized and motivated to

understand that. But the problem today is the data challenge,

right? And they don't have all of these data in one

platform, and it's very difficult to

understand and really stitch together the impact of decision making.

And that's where a powerful tool like Board brings in, very

elegantly, data from office of finance,

operational data at the SKU level, which is, we're talking about

high volumes of data. And the real multidimensional model

and the calculation engine that Board has built in is able to

process high volumes of these calculations that needs

to happen for you to run scenarios, what if analysis, and start to make

capital outlays and decisions in a much more effective manner.

So in a nutshell, I would say Board is extremely

well-positioned to help organizations start

to bring together siloed and start to make much more

integrated decision making.